Level B1 – Intermediate

Overview of Level B1 – Intermediate

At Level B1 you move from simple everyday communication to more independent and flexible use of Persian. You already know the alphabet, basic pronunciation, present and past tenses, and can handle routine situations. Now you will learn to connect ideas, express opinions, and understand longer speech and texts.

The focus of this level is not to add many completely new verb forms, but to deepen what you know and to use it in more complex patterns. You will also expand your vocabulary into study, work, travel, culture, and social topics.

Communicative Goals of B1

By the end of Level B1, you should be able to:

Speak about daily life and familiar topics in several connected sentences, not only in isolated phrases. You will tell simple stories, describe past trips, explain plans, and talk about your studies or job. You will practice this in narration units and social topic units.

Understand the main ideas of clear speech on familiar topics. For example, you should follow a simple news story, a short lecture about education, or a conversation about travel plans, even if you do not catch every word.

Handle the most common situations while traveling in a Persian speaking country. This includes checking into a hotel, solving simple problems, asking about schedules, or explaining your needs at a clinic.

Express your opinion and react to others. You will learn useful opinion phrases, polite agreement and disagreement, and how to give simple reasons and consequences.

Adjust between more polite and more informal language in a basic way. You will see how Persian speakers soften requests, use polite forms, and shift between written and spoken style.

Key Grammar Focus at B1

At Level A you mainly worked with simple present and simple past. B1 does not overload you with many new tenses, but it teaches new structures that let you describe time more precisely and connect ideas.

You will learn the present continuous, for actions that are happening now or around now. You will compare it with the simple present and see how spoken Persian often uses special forms here.

You will add future expressions to talk about plans and predictions, mostly with present tense plus time words, and with common verbs like “to want” and “to plan.”

You will learn many compound verbs, that is verbs made of a verb and a noun or adjective, such as “to decide,” “to start,” “to continue,” “to get used to,” and so on. These are essential for natural Persian and appear all the time in everyday speech and media.

You will meet relative clauses, to connect two sentences like “the book that I bought yesterday” or “the person who lives there.” This will make your speech and writing more precise.

You will also learn to use the object marker, a small but very frequent word that marks specific direct objects and is central for clear and natural Persian.

Each of these topics has its own chapter later in Level B1, where they are explained in detail and practiced step by step.

Discourse Skills and Connectors

An important part of Level B1 is learning to connect your sentences more logically. Instead of speaking in very short, separate sentences, you will use words for time and sequence, such as “first,” “then,” “after that,” and “finally,” and you will start to combine reasons and results.

You will begin to use simple connectors that show cause, contrast, and consequence, and you will see how native speakers use these in conversational Persian. These connectors make your speech more fluid and help you tell stories that are easy to follow.

Topics and Situations You Will Cover

The Level B1 units are organized around real life themes. Each grammar topic appears inside a communicative context, so you always see how a form is used in real speech.

You will talk about education and studies, for example your school, university, courses, subjects you like, ways of studying, and future study plans. This connects naturally with future expressions and opinion language.

You will discuss work and career, such as jobs, work routines, work problems, and ambitions. Here you will recycle compound verbs about work and planning, and practice the present continuous to describe ongoing projects.

You will explore technology and media, for example phones, social networks, internet use, TV, films, and news. This gives you vocabulary that you meet all the time in modern Persian, and you will read and listen to simple authentic style texts.

You will talk about travel and holidays, including planning trips, using transportation, booking accommodation, and describing past journeys. This is where narration in the past and storytelling skills become central.

You will learn about cultural traditions, such as important holidays, family customs, and social habits, and you will compare them with your own culture. Here you will use relative clauses and connectors to give richer descriptions.

Politeness, Register, and Style at B1

At this level you become more aware of different registers in Persian, especially between spoken informal forms and more polite or written forms. You may already know that Persian often has a colloquial spoken layer that differs from what you see in textbooks.

In Level B1, you will learn when it is appropriate to use informal speech with friends or family, and when to choose more polite forms, for example in shops, offices, or with older people. You will also practice simple ways to soften requests and suggestions, an important part of Persian politeness.

You will not study all details of register here, but you will get enough awareness to avoid sounding too rude or too stiff in usual situations.

Strategy: How to Study at B1

To succeed at B1 you need to keep your basic skills active while adding complexity. It helps to balance accuracy and fluency.

Continue short daily practice with verbs and simple sentences, so that forms of “to be,” simple present, and simple past stay automatic. This gives you space in your mind to handle longer structures like relative clauses and connectors.

Begin to speak for longer periods, even if you make mistakes. Try to describe your day in Persian for one or two minutes, or retell a simple story you heard. Use the new connectors that you learn in this level to join your sentences.

Expose yourself to real Persian input. Watch short video clips with subtitles, listen to simple podcasts, or read short texts about topics from this level, such as study, work, or travel. The goal is not perfect understanding, but regular contact with natural language.

When you learn new compound verbs and expressions, record them in a notebook with an example sentence related to your own life. Compound verbs are a powerful tool at B1 and beyond.

What “Intermediate” Means for Errors and Fluency

At B1 you will still make many mistakes, and that is normal. You might mix up verb endings, forget the object marker, or choose a connector that is not ideal. Yet the important point is that you can usually make yourself understood and can keep a conversation going.

You will often need your conversation partner to speak clearly and slowly, and you may ask them to repeat or rephrase. At the same time, you are already able to repair problems by using simpler wording, or by explaining a word you do not know with other words.

Gradually, as you go through the four B1 units, your speech will become more automatic and your sentences will become longer and more organized.

B1 Vocabulary Scope

Across Level B1 you will meet several hundred new words and expressions, including many high frequency verbs, compound verbs, connectors, and topic specific words. The goal is not to memorize every rare word, but to firmly learn the basic and frequent ones that appear again and again in everyday speaking, news, and media.

In each B1 chapter you will find a vocabulary table at the end with the most important new Persian items. This helps you review and organize your learning. You can also build personal flashcards from these tables.

Below you will find an initial core set of important B1 level Persian words that will appear often in the B1 chapters. You do not need to master all of them before starting, but it is helpful to begin to recognize them.

Core B1 Vocabulary Preview

These items are a preview of key words and expressions that are central at B1. Many of them will reappear across units and will be practiced in context later.

These words form a base for the specific vocabulary that appears in each B1 unit. The next chapters in Level B1 will introduce and practice them inside dialogues, texts, and structured explanations.